KYLA GILBERT
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My practice focuses on the changeability of matter and the fusion of organic materials and industrial products, in parallel to the human body within its environment. I'm interested in the ways in which we embody our lived reality and imagine different future outcomes. Our present global environment is reliant on synthetics, and undergoing the effects of ongoing imperialism, colonization and extraction. I'm curious about how to work from these material realities, including all of the accompanied transmutations, cross-contaminations and hybridizations.
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My main interest lies in boundaries, and where we place the divide in terms of one thing and another. My practice is an inquiry into intimacy, exploring the vulnerable space where separate entities are able to stay in relation to one other without pushing away or taking on something of the other. I'm also interested in the results of a full melding of separate units, and the possible transformation or blurring of the identities of each.
EDUCATION
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Emily Carr University of Art + Design, MFA, 2022

NSCAD University, Visual Certificate in Sculpture, 2019
Concordia University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2017
EXHIBITION
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Happening 106, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro NC, 2020
Everyday Objects, Studio Montclair, Montclair NJ, 2019
Art and Artists Celebration, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer MN, 2019
At Home, Port Loggia Gallery, Halifax NS, 201
PERFORMANCE
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​Kahkakiw, OBORO, 2019
Nufonia Must Fall, Kid Koala Productions, 2017-2019
Vinyl Vaudeville, Kid Koala Productions, 2017-2018
Dwellings, Concordia University, 2017
Shadow/Presence, Concordia University, 2017
RESIDENCY

Artist Residency, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro NC, 2020
Artist Residency, Celine Bureau, Montreal QC, 2019
Intern Artist Residency, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN, 2019
Creation Residency for Kahkakiw, OBORO, Montreal QC, 2019
ARTIST TALKS

Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro NC, 2020
Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer MN, 2019
PUBLISHED WRITING

Co-editor and contributor, I Need to Talk to You, Emily Carr University, 2020
Contributor, Globe Climate - Globe and Mail, 2020
Contributor, Undergraduate Journal of Performance Creation, Concordia University, 2017
GRANTS

Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create Grant, 2020
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR

World of Bugs, Moment Factory & Taipei National Concert Hall, 2017 & 2018
Kids Make Sculpture, Franconia Sculpture Park, 2019
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